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i can just ask one favor before u.s. your question if you raise your hand. we have a staff in each of the aisles. will of your hand and give you a microphone and introduce yourself. right here. >> i am john from burbank. i was wondering if there was any possibility of you using different sources to prosecute some of the people involved in fast and furious. [applause] >> first to find the details. the investigation is going on. it was handled on the federal level. i will tell you as you all know, of course we are getting our budgets under control. we don't have a lot of money but certainly persons will be held accountable for what has taken place in arizona. and america. >> over here. >> hello. i just want to thank you for 1070. i know you have a recent press all the way to the supreme court. would you consider your championing of the immigration issue within the gop and other governors? who are facing the same situation arizona faces? >> each state we believe certainly in the new federalism where our state has all the rights that we're all doing it together,
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if the u.s. is not dealing with this because they are concerned about north korean accounts, maybe we should look at the north korean accounts in our bank. so you have this major impact. it had a very big impact on north korea. was this meant as an action to summary and the diplomacy that was taking place? i really don't think so. like i said, it was a law enforcement action. it was something that was happening on a parallel track with the diplomacy. all of us those participating in the diplomacy where also participating in the decision-making process in this particular action. in the end it was something that had to be done, and it did cause a delay in the negotiations. as we saw later, the negotiations eventually came back online. and it led to two very important agreements. one in which we have froze the nuclear program, and the second led to the dismantlement of important pieces of the nuclear program. it is pretty safe to say today that the plutonium program, the leapt on him -- plutonium pr
if the u.s. is not dealing with this because they are concerned about north korean accounts, maybe we should look at the north korean accounts in our bank. so you have this major impact. it had a very big impact on north korea. was this meant as an action to summary and the diplomacy that was taking place? i really don't think so. like i said, it was a law enforcement action. it was something that was happening on a parallel track with the diplomacy. all of us those participating in the...
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power in the asia pacific and south china sea, where u.s. carriers are now vulnerable to being increasingly impressive technology, chinese ballistics and so forth. so it's a very complex picture. can you started out as a bit quiet and do you address it in your boat. >> guest: let me first of all say what i do thing an american engagement in the far east, across the pacific is a natural thing for us to undertake. i do not think the way to define it as somehow to related significance for us to the decline in military will of the united states and southwest asia, specifically afghanistan and iraq. i don't think it's particularly perfect over persuasive to announce we will deploy 500 marines. i think that is frankly on the verge of absurdity. what it implies a larger sense i also disagree with because it would imply we are going to do in asia what we did in europe. in our earlier discussion i do the difference between what we have to do in europe with what is today needs to the far east because we are not going to dominate the far east. we don't
power in the asia pacific and south china sea, where u.s. carriers are now vulnerable to being increasingly impressive technology, chinese ballistics and so forth. so it's a very complex picture. can you started out as a bit quiet and do you address it in your boat. >> guest: let me first of all say what i do thing an american engagement in the far east, across the pacific is a natural thing for us to undertake. i do not think the way to define it as somehow to related significance for us...
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to ec activity in terms of trying to counterfeit cigarettes or u.s. money? where do you think that stands at this point? >> this is sort of a fascinating story. the notion that here is a country that's basically one-third of its economy is based on illicit activity as you mentioned, counterfeiting drugs, counterfeiting cigarettes, counterfeiting the u.s. currency. the north koreans counterfeit the 100-dollar bill. it is known in the profession a few well as the super node because they managed somehow to acquire a printing press, the eink and the paper that is used for the production of hundred dollar bills. the difference is the printing plates they manage to require our brand awareness the ones the u.s. treasury uses are surely old and so the imperfections the you see in a treasury note you don't see any north korean note. that's why it is called a super nova and so this is a part of their economy, and so during the bush administration, efforts were taken to try to stop this through a series of sanctions the were aimed at trying to target the account of com
to ec activity in terms of trying to counterfeit cigarettes or u.s. money? where do you think that stands at this point? >> this is sort of a fascinating story. the notion that here is a country that's basically one-third of its economy is based on illicit activity as you mentioned, counterfeiting drugs, counterfeiting cigarettes, counterfeiting the u.s. currency. the north koreans counterfeit the 100-dollar bill. it is known in the profession a few well as the super node because they...
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in the west, the u.s. should remain i suppose in its role as a promoter and guarantor of greater order unity. in the east you distinguish america's role saying that we should be the balancer and conciliator between the major powers. can you explain that a little bit more, why these need to be separate roles? >> guest: because of the case of europe, we were engaged in two world wars and we had to be engaged in these two world wars. because these two world wars were still fought on the premise that the victor would dominate the world and i think it is correct to say and morally right to say that the world would be better off without hitlerism or stalinism. this is no longer the issue. the danger today in my view is if we do not do the things i say in my book, and i'm thinking of is strategically, the world will succumb to greater and greater turmoil in the future. the world is now not only composed of competitive states that should be of possible cooperative states, it's also composed, and this is the very m
in the west, the u.s. should remain i suppose in its role as a promoter and guarantor of greater order unity. in the east you distinguish america's role saying that we should be the balancer and conciliator between the major powers. can you explain that a little bit more, why these need to be separate roles? >> guest: because of the case of europe, we were engaged in two world wars and we had to be engaged in these two world wars. because these two world wars were still fought on the...
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the southern reaches of the u.s. worlder away from places like san diego and el paso in places like calexico are the poorest, often, or among the poorest in this country. so the whole thing is turned upside down from the stereotype which makes it an appropriate jumping-off place to look at the border. i'm going to come back to "no animals were harmed." this is quite the juggling exercise, keep my schizophrenia straight. i met some fascinating people and, again, looking at this morality of what constitutes use and what constitutes abuse. one of the guys that i became friends with and one of the joys of being the kind of a journalist i am going out and immersing myself in a story like this is that those who are initially subjects and then sources under the best of circumstances can become friends. and this guy, you probably can't see him clearly here, but this guy is sticking his head into the mouth of a lion. and i had the opportunity to get to know him in budapest. he works with the hungarian state circus, and he rea
the southern reaches of the u.s. worlder away from places like san diego and el paso in places like calexico are the poorest, often, or among the poorest in this country. so the whole thing is turned upside down from the stereotype which makes it an appropriate jumping-off place to look at the border. i'm going to come back to "no animals were harmed." this is quite the juggling exercise, keep my schizophrenia straight. i met some fascinating people and, again, looking at this...
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senator specter is in conversation of mike castle, former delaware governor and u.s. representative for a little under an hour. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. it can be no better place to have this discussion began in the constitution center. the three key words in the constitution it's beginning we, the people, and i am delighted to have my colleague, the former member of the house of representatives mike castle join me and as david eisner accurately characterized it, we are members of authority year club which is not too easy to come by. it takes awhile to get that kind of seniority. this book, life among the cannibals, was designed to come out in the midst of this election season to try to equate the american people with why washington is what it is today, and that is gridlocked and dysfunctional so that if the electorate is properly motivated, now is to do something about it, and the title is by the liberation for motivation and for accuracy. this is what is happening. it is the account to wohlstetter our senators and representatives and i will be very s
senator specter is in conversation of mike castle, former delaware governor and u.s. representative for a little under an hour. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. it can be no better place to have this discussion began in the constitution center. the three key words in the constitution it's beginning we, the people, and i am delighted to have my colleague, the former member of the house of representatives mike castle join me and as david eisner accurately characterized it, we are...
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given the weight gains have unfolded in the way this language of right is not so much under the u.s. domestic context? i mean, they are not very often but more and more they are beginning to be. but certainly globally, there really difficult to contest. >> yes, that's a great question. i want to say a few things. one, i can absolutely see the dynamic and the way the human rights advocate would feel compelled to move into different areas that are foremost in the mind. i want to emphasize in many ways i see this as the remarkably path to answer, something we should all be happy about and prod us. and in my discussion, i only want to also raise smog capital. and yet, on the question of what might change now, it seems to me this is always evolving. and the way that the notion of in particular that's captured the imagination of so many people, it is also the case that we see movements focused on other things. this is why the arab spring in the question that's what happening around anticorruption fascinates me and i wish i had the opportunity to address in the book because one could easily
given the weight gains have unfolded in the way this language of right is not so much under the u.s. domestic context? i mean, they are not very often but more and more they are beginning to be. but certainly globally, there really difficult to contest. >> yes, that's a great question. i want to say a few things. one, i can absolutely see the dynamic and the way the human rights advocate would feel compelled to move into different areas that are foremost in the mind. i want to emphasize...
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former chairwoman of the u.s. commission on civil rights. here's a history of the u.s. commission on civil rights. very frances berry on booktv on c-span 2. >> now another interview from the university of pennsylvania. stephanie mccurry sat down to discuss her book about her reckoning, looking at internal politics during the civil war and the influence the southern limit of a hat on the worst outcome. it's a little under half an hour. >> confederate bracketing is the name of the book. powered politics and the civil war south. the author is history professor, stephanie mccurry and the university of pennsylvania. first of all, professor mccurry, what is this painting on the front of your book? >> guest: this is a civil war painting of a battleship going down, the confederate flag going down in flames. it's an allegorical painting.
former chairwoman of the u.s. commission on civil rights. here's a history of the u.s. commission on civil rights. very frances berry on booktv on c-span 2. >> now another interview from the university of pennsylvania. stephanie mccurry sat down to discuss her book about her reckoning, looking at internal politics during the civil war and the influence the southern limit of a hat on the worst outcome. it's a little under half an hour. >> confederate bracketing is the name of the...
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you made a reference to deployment and u.s. marines and australia somewhat dismissively but as i understand this is part of a very concerted effort at alliance building by the obama administration in asia renewing ties with the philippines even hillary clinton's visit to myanmar, the first visit to that country under its military recently was described to me as part of an effort to build up ties with a circle of countries that have had a somewhat rocky relations with china. the chinese have not reacted well to this official and semi-official. they see this encirclement in the containment. do you think this is not a wise policy that is being pursued or do you think that it can be conducted better? >> i would say that it is an unobjectionable policy, on objectionable. if it is not a vulgarized by wordings which if it connotations which are in my judgment not in our interest and probably not implemented because i frankly don't think whatever our intentions are and i would say to defend burma and hanoi for that matter so i see no p
you made a reference to deployment and u.s. marines and australia somewhat dismissively but as i understand this is part of a very concerted effort at alliance building by the obama administration in asia renewing ties with the philippines even hillary clinton's visit to myanmar, the first visit to that country under its military recently was described to me as part of an effort to build up ties with a circle of countries that have had a somewhat rocky relations with china. the chinese have not...
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in europe, that number is 6 trillion, even though the european economy is about the same size of the u.s. what you call bonded debt. companies borrow commercial paper. bonds and other sources, about 5 trillion in this country. only one injured. but that means you is top heavy with banks. what that means it is a a small company and you start to grow, you don't have the venture capital industry we have. you don't have all the diverse sources of capital here. so you eventually get force, most cases, to be a part of a big company, and so you don't get the microsoft, the apple on a scale we in this country. so you look at the 1970s, terrible decade. look at what was emerging, microsoft, apple, oracle, charles schwab, southwest airlines, fedex and others. you have a capital system that could nurture them, get them to grow, the independent companies of the future. so again europe grows at 2%, we grow at three an and a half even though we're the largest economy in the developed world. if feldman ends up messing up the market, you get decent instrument's that come in to deal with it, tried to mak
in europe, that number is 6 trillion, even though the european economy is about the same size of the u.s. what you call bonded debt. companies borrow commercial paper. bonds and other sources, about 5 trillion in this country. only one injured. but that means you is top heavy with banks. what that means it is a a small company and you start to grow, you don't have the venture capital industry we have. you don't have all the diverse sources of capital here. so you eventually get force, most...
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on june 9, his body was flown to washington dc to lie in state in the rotunda of the u.s. capitol. where 1000 -- 104,000 mourners viewed it on june 11. the funeral service was held at the national cathedral, attended by many of the world's greatest leaders, including his old adversary, mikael gorbachev. he was buried in california at the reagan -- ronald reagan presidential library. on his gravestone were inscribed words from the speech of the dedication of the library. i know in my heart that man is dead. that what is right will eventually try him if there is purpose and worth to each and every life. during his political career, -- today they are still those who belittle his career and the ultimate failure of soviet communism. but there are many others who remember reagan fondly and greatly, mainly from his record of 34 television network addresses to the american people. what these people were called him and no matter what their politics or his, was a man of great means. of straight talk. good humor and good will. he was a [cheers] president no matter what came his way. there wer
on june 9, his body was flown to washington dc to lie in state in the rotunda of the u.s. capitol. where 1000 -- 104,000 mourners viewed it on june 11. the funeral service was held at the national cathedral, attended by many of the world's greatest leaders, including his old adversary, mikael gorbachev. he was buried in california at the reagan -- ronald reagan presidential library. on his gravestone were inscribed words from the speech of the dedication of the library. i know in my heart that...
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u.s. for specifics and it's clear that she had not read the book. you can't argue with the liberal when they don't even want to show up to do the homework. anyway, i kept going okay, this is a journalist. i feel like blah, blog, blog. so i'm going okay i think it's only the liberals that they like. i might be wrong but i said to her, i go it's weird. you keep saying how do you feel as opposed to what do you think? don't you think that is strange when you're interviewing an author about a book? isn't that weird? she did not have an answer for me. we we are seeing each other later. [laughter] she sounded cute. i am kidding. it was weird though. what was funny was, she asked me, she said to me, you transitioned from a magazine. what do they have in common? i said you know, the most important thing when you are a reporter you prepare. [laughter] you have a list of questions and read up on the person. anything, magazines, books, that is what you do. i don't think she even knew that i was talking to her. it was really good. aye this would be good advice.
u.s. for specifics and it's clear that she had not read the book. you can't argue with the liberal when they don't even want to show up to do the homework. anyway, i kept going okay, this is a journalist. i feel like blah, blog, blog. so i'm going okay i think it's only the liberals that they like. i might be wrong but i said to her, i go it's weird. you keep saying how do you feel as opposed to what do you think? don't you think that is strange when you're interviewing an author about a book?...
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on c-span q&a. >> u.s. airways chairman and ceo dug parker said wednesday the time for action is now on a merger with american airlines. he said american airlines network weakness and revenue problems can only be fixed with the merger. american airlines filed for bankruptcy last year and plans to formally sound out potential merger partners or other investment deals in the coming weeks. following his remarks, parker to questions of the current state in the future outlook of the airline industry. this is about an hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the national press club. my name is theresa warner, 9,105th president of the national press club. we are the world's leading professional organization for journalists committed to our profession's future through programming like events like this while fostering a free press worldwide. for more air permission about the national press club, please visit our website at www dot press story. please visit test up court / institute. on behalf of our members worldwide wou
on c-span q&a. >> u.s. airways chairman and ceo dug parker said wednesday the time for action is now on a merger with american airlines. he said american airlines network weakness and revenue problems can only be fixed with the merger. american airlines filed for bankruptcy last year and plans to formally sound out potential merger partners or other investment deals in the coming weeks. following his remarks, parker to questions of the current state in the future outlook of the...
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overall, the u.s. goth is in its taxation and granting of benefits about 25% less redistrictive than it was in 1979. um, but this is really a trend that you will see turns up very dramatically even before you take taxes and government benefits into consideration. another logical cause is immigration. the timing would seem to be perfect. in 965 we liberalized immigration laws and saw a huge increase in immigration as a result. so that would fit -- we would expect to see some impact by the '70s. however, economists have done study after study, and they have really not been able to establish much of an impact. george soar has, who's an economist at harvard, fairly conservative, somewhat anti-immigration, has looked at this question in great detail. and if anybody was going to find a correlation, it would have been him. but really he found that the only meaningful correlation occurred for high school dropouts. and that's because the overwhelming majority of immigrants are unskilled and high school dropouts
overall, the u.s. goth is in its taxation and granting of benefits about 25% less redistrictive than it was in 1979. um, but this is really a trend that you will see turns up very dramatically even before you take taxes and government benefits into consideration. another logical cause is immigration. the timing would seem to be perfect. in 965 we liberalized immigration laws and saw a huge increase in immigration as a result. so that would fit -- we would expect to see some impact by the '70s....
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in a flat world, in a neoliberal globalized world, the u.s. government still had the capacity to create as much demand as it wanted, it just can't call into being -- they can be sure that the production is called into being by that demand. it is going to be in the united states. we could well be stimulating chinese and german industry, while they freeride and don't have budget deficits and look down their noses at us. it is a crucial point. it is not the only crucial point, it is one. the other thing that neoliberal globalization is that it is characterized by free movement of labor -- lack of free movement of labor. what it means is for integration. we called the agreements which constituted free-trade agreements, not quite, we don't need 600 pages to write a free-trade agreement. you just need there shall be no tariffs and non-tariff barriers and both countries agree and there no exceptions. it depends on the type you use. 600 pages, which remember, on the fast track, congress decided to see or debate. just up or down. what about the other 5
in a flat world, in a neoliberal globalized world, the u.s. government still had the capacity to create as much demand as it wanted, it just can't call into being -- they can be sure that the production is called into being by that demand. it is going to be in the united states. we could well be stimulating chinese and german industry, while they freeride and don't have budget deficits and look down their noses at us. it is a crucial point. it is not the only crucial point, it is one. the other...
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the u.s. supreme court in two separate rulings said that they shouldn't have done it. i belvet evebody i stutidh v.eidn t ti yanle evodthte ye ino s a the moment. u.s. supreme court had the same regards for the florida supreme court as you d foheloisret o. onher gurer 't mtton h ain she was actually, despite having been a member of the aclu, and been really onhe cti e eneght dotoreup co aoc be oech d llntan nby several members of the senate and they had a lot of respect for her despite what you might be suggesting as a-s ditelil reenon e rreoutad ns, a jce o'or dren ay terms of their personality. but they bame quite good friends on the supreme court. kindf a t there. andhe etet lhaidt te antecdote that i tell. it is hard to get up t spe ther chief justice rehuist ane heserir oon a t caino wri ho w complicated federal pension law and justice ginsburg said, how can he give me this hardpinion to write up and, younow,t'l spernms v jueond,h, juot. juete. stouplng m on. d justice ginsburg loved it. she said that is just saundra. >> i'm allen -- >>t't sa. >> illan -- mandell.
the u.s. supreme court in two separate rulings said that they shouldn't have done it. i belvet evebody i stutidh v.eidn t ti yanle evodthte ye ino s a the moment. u.s. supreme court had the same regards for the florida supreme court as you d foheloisret o. onher gurer 't mtton h ain she was actually, despite having been a member of the aclu, and been really onhe cti e eneght dotoreup co aoc be oech d llntan nby several members of the senate and they had a lot of respect for her despite what you...
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[applause] >>> next on book tv, former deputy assistant secretary of commerce argues that the u.s. is and will continue to be a leader in manufacturing and innovation. it's about 45 minutes. >> thank you for the kind introduction. it is an honor to be yet politics and prose, such an institution to the city and a pleasure to be here. thank you everyone for coming on an august evening to hear me. i will try to be brief in my comments and i would rather have more of an exchange of ideas and hear your perspective so we can have a conversation about manufacturing and what our country should do to be competitive. the idea from the book came about when i was traveling and around the country, and i would see a successful manufacturer making blunders and steel and full-year suits and meat and food, and i would say i thought that all of our manufacturing had gone offshore. something didn't make sense. so i started to wonder what were people missing in the story? and it turns out that while a lot of manufacturing has gone offshore, so if you go into a store, the toys and apparel and all of th
[applause] >>> next on book tv, former deputy assistant secretary of commerce argues that the u.s. is and will continue to be a leader in manufacturing and innovation. it's about 45 minutes. >> thank you for the kind introduction. it is an honor to be yet politics and prose, such an institution to the city and a pleasure to be here. thank you everyone for coming on an august evening to hear me. i will try to be brief in my comments and i would rather have more of an exchange of...
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i can't help thinking about a friend of mine up close and personal take on u.s. military commanders in afghanistan is that they were trapped in an american-made box and capable of seeing beyond its boundaries. that is seeing afghanistan. i have no doubt that it is generally something to be desired. but if you take the personal bonds with you that often hardly matter where you are. thinking about my stars & stripes questions, who's not into that. it's not as where you go, or how you see what's there and know what is important and we see that matters. which means that sometimes come you can actually see more by going nowhere at all. an iraqi tragedy. all evidence indicates that the first thing that they can deceive themselves. they see the world is a stage and the countries that we have invaded or occupied, pakistan, somalia, yemen, we conduct a war in american drama. as wired military commanders and top officials like robert gates and james jones continue to call unconsciously putting an iraqi or afghan phase on whichever war was being discussed. that is to follow
i can't help thinking about a friend of mine up close and personal take on u.s. military commanders in afghanistan is that they were trapped in an american-made box and capable of seeing beyond its boundaries. that is seeing afghanistan. i have no doubt that it is generally something to be desired. but if you take the personal bonds with you that often hardly matter where you are. thinking about my stars & stripes questions, who's not into that. it's not as where you go, or how you see...
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first president to be elected under the system we know well, in which the candidates attracted to a u.s. and new hampshire, and they submit their feet to the will of the people. and in a series of primaries and caucuses they are the chairs and nominees are selected. before jimmy carter, presidential candidates were chosen by insiders at the national conventions. and they could run in the primaries and the caucus but they didn't necessarily have to. it was an inside game. presidents now must raise a lot of money to take their money to their case to the people in the way that they didn't need to before. and in terms of the travel and the president's focusing on the key states, you have presidents now who are key to the political success taking their case to the people and now that you're in the office, they have continued to do so as president.o in the book i talk about examples of the presidential aide saying when a president needs to get back to his winning a game or does he want to do? he wants to go back to the people and the have and to do it in the key electoral states that better
first president to be elected under the system we know well, in which the candidates attracted to a u.s. and new hampshire, and they submit their feet to the will of the people. and in a series of primaries and caucuses they are the chairs and nominees are selected. before jimmy carter, presidential candidates were chosen by insiders at the national conventions. and they could run in the primaries and the caucus but they didn't necessarily have to. it was an inside game. presidents now must...
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. >> president bill clinton coming in your new book back to work you talk about the fact the u.s. should get back in the future business; what do you mean by that? >> i mean that we should have a strategy to build a future of shared prosperity and shared responsibility is based on a cooperative relationship between a strong private economy and a smart government. i think this battle we have been in over whether the government is the source of all our problems and there is no such thing as a bad tax cut or good tax or bad deregulation our good deregulation as obscure what is really going on out there in the world is we still have a lot of the enormous advantages in america but we have lost ground relative to a lot of other countries and the percentage of our young adults with college degrees and our performance and standardized tests in the competitiveness of our health care system where we get what we pay and our ability to generate manager during inclement and ability to export in our research and development capabilities in the areas that we know are growing in the years ahead a
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the u.s. and the regime. so you're al qaeda question is important in the sense that i think it does govern the thing about america's going to do. this is clearly sent to syria to say to not let islamic extremist, we've got to pick some winners. a major outcome of the friends of syria meeting in istanbul several months ago was that clinton announced that all funding would go to the syrian national council, and that saudi arabia had agreed to do that, which would mean that america would be able to pick the winners and it wouldn't go straight to the muslim brotherhood or two al qaeda, saudi arabia might like to fund. now, that broke down because syrian national council had its heart attack and jettisoned, got in a kurd and a and attacked the kurds were being powerless and bad come and they all began to stab each other in the eye. and so america's plan fell apart in its hands, and he became, and the weapons aren't getting and i think in the numbers that they hoped to i don't know where saudi arabi
the u.s. and the regime. so you're al qaeda question is important in the sense that i think it does govern the thing about america's going to do. this is clearly sent to syria to say to not let islamic extremist, we've got to pick some winners. a major outcome of the friends of syria meeting in istanbul several months ago was that clinton announced that all funding would go to the syrian national council, and that saudi arabia had agreed to do that, which would mean that america would be able...
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. >> host: now joining us on booktv is professor brendan doherty of the u.s. naval academy. his most recent book is called "the rise of the president's permanent campaign". professor doherty, who was packard bell? >> guest: very good question. first, thanks for having me on. i might be in your program. pat caddell was an adviser to president-elect jimmy carter and he is noted for coining that transition memo he wrote to then president-elect carter, in which he said the key to being effective as president is a continuing political campaign. the notion was born man and popularized by book on political consultants when a teen 80s that has since become part of the common lexicon. >> host: how it should defend campaign? >> guest: it can be defined broadly or narrowly. the way i define as the extent to which a president focuses on electoral concerns throughout his term in office. by focusing the same presidential fundraising, and dedication to key electoral states to register them in office and the nature of electoral decision-making within the white house itself in recent adminis
. >> host: now joining us on booktv is professor brendan doherty of the u.s. naval academy. his most recent book is called "the rise of the president's permanent campaign". professor doherty, who was packard bell? >> guest: very good question. first, thanks for having me on. i might be in your program. pat caddell was an adviser to president-elect jimmy carter and he is noted for coining that transition memo he wrote to then president-elect carter, in which he said the key...
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from europe, that number is $6 tio as a whole is about the same size as the u.s. what you have is bonded debt. bonds and other sources. about $5 trillion in this country, only one in europe. what that means is that europe is top-heavy with banks. what that means is that if you are a small company and you start to grow, you don't have the venture capital industry that we have. you don't have all the divorce social issues. in most cases, they become part of a big company. you don't get them on the scale that we have these. look at the 1970s. a terrible decade. but look what was emerging. microsoft, apple, southwest airlines, fedex, and others. he capital system that could nurture them and get them to grow and to be independent and companies of the future. so again, europe grows at 2%, we grow at 3.5%, even though we have the largest economy in the developed world. because we have the ability to address. if government ends up messing up the markets, as it does what it trashes the dollar, you get these new instruments for comment but deal with it and try to make money
from europe, that number is $6 tio as a whole is about the same size as the u.s. what you have is bonded debt. bonds and other sources. about $5 trillion in this country, only one in europe. what that means is that europe is top-heavy with banks. what that means is that if you are a small company and you start to grow, you don't have the venture capital industry that we have. you don't have all the divorce social issues. in most cases, they become part of a big company. you don't get them on...
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drilling into the ground, and to the ice, they were doing it because the u.s. it actually gotten to dig, and said they wanted to have something to dig into. they went to. and it as always 15 years ago that it was determined that there was a huge lake, two and a half year -- two and a half miles below. like the size of lake ontario. a lot more water that lake ontario. the most pristine spot on earth. there were some others somewhat like it in antarctica, but nothing of this size and scope. so they started drilling more and more. and it was quite controversial because of the way the drills. using antifreeze and kerosene. the fear was that they would hit the water and then think that things would happen, but they did make it through just a couple of months ago. it was -- in the end, an international phenomenon was recorded around the world. they did it on the last that they could before they had to land. the antarctic winter was so large airplanes cannot come in and out. they have a window of two and a half months. and so they were on their last day when they brok
drilling into the ground, and to the ice, they were doing it because the u.s. it actually gotten to dig, and said they wanted to have something to dig into. they went to. and it as always 15 years ago that it was determined that there was a huge lake, two and a half year -- two and a half miles below. like the size of lake ontario. a lot more water that lake ontario. the most pristine spot on earth. there were some others somewhat like it in antarctica, but nothing of this size and scope. so...
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the way that things have unfolded, and the fact that this language of rights is not so much in the u.s. domestic context, they are not very often invoked here although we think more and more they are beginning to be, but certainly globally they are difficult to contest. >> that is a great question. i want to say a few things. one, i absolutely see the dynamic and the way that the human rights advocates would be, would feel compelled to move into different areas because those are the kind of concerns that are foremost in the minds of many of the people they are dealing with, and in many ways i see this as an advance we should be happy about and proud of, and in my discussion i only want to also raise some small capitals, and yet on the course of what might change now it seems to me this is always evolving and that the way that the notion of the rights have captured the imagination of so many people, it's also the case that we see the movements focused on other things, and this is why the arab spring fascinates me and i wish i had the opportunity to address them in the book because one c
the way that things have unfolded, and the fact that this language of rights is not so much in the u.s. domestic context, they are not very often invoked here although we think more and more they are beginning to be, but certainly globally they are difficult to contest. >> that is a great question. i want to say a few things. one, i absolutely see the dynamic and the way that the human rights advocates would be, would feel compelled to move into different areas because those are the kind...
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a bit about the history and u.s. policy into a more general audience because i think this is a sort of issue where the educated leader really doesn't know much about north korea and its history. they see headlines about missile tests and leaders and all these things. i thought it be good to write a book that people could look to as a comprehensive assessment of the history, the family, the economics, the politics, the human right situation, the nuclear problem that they could look to every time they had a question about what was going on with north korea, and so it's not -- it's not -- i wouldn't call it a scholarly book, although it has footnotes, but it's really written to a general audience that might be interested in trying to learn something about this country on the far side of the planet. >> host: the book also has a point of view, and it's, i think, been formed from your experience in the bush administration. >> guest: uh-huh. >> host: how did you decide to kind of infuse it with that kind of point of view, y
a bit about the history and u.s. policy into a more general audience because i think this is a sort of issue where the educated leader really doesn't know much about north korea and its history. they see headlines about missile tests and leaders and all these things. i thought it be good to write a book that people could look to as a comprehensive assessment of the history, the family, the economics, the politics, the human right situation, the nuclear problem that they could look to every time...
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the essence of that, we did not trade one u.s. interest for another u.s. interest, interesting gupta that point. people say if the soviet union does something we don't like they will pay with u.s. interests instead of one of their own interests so we got away with that with a new negotiating approach and gradually to geneva where we arrived with some sense of things being significant to the soviet union and one of the preparatory trips we met with a member of the triumvirate's who said you know as do the year we got to be in charge the coverage was there. i am not sure a lot of that registered in washington intelligence community where we had a different sense of the soviet leadership we were acquiring as we went through the dialogue it became difficult to look what we were getting from the intelligence side and what we received across the table but in geneva as president reagan met gorbachev the first time the two of them met in front of a fireplace conversation later walking along the lake and began to see the emergence where people accept and believe in
the essence of that, we did not trade one u.s. interest for another u.s. interest, interesting gupta that point. people say if the soviet union does something we don't like they will pay with u.s. interests instead of one of their own interests so we got away with that with a new negotiating approach and gradually to geneva where we arrived with some sense of things being significant to the soviet union and one of the preparatory trips we met with a member of the triumvirate's who said you know...
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she hado irstak t u.s gaot . educe th in r opion about the importance of israel as a kind of democracy and a democracy in this vast dert of despotisand ddle s aasshihas ry important to her. she made a very conscious effort to rehabilitate israel and to defend israel,nd tn of courhentdo know, use the growing moral clout she had and growing political effectiveness that she had yonowtackhe siet ui pue etun h inatise h gre accomplishment is for the soviet union, for the first time, a on the defensive in the u.n.. >> host: now we arecoming up on the 30th aniversary of the jes lands warnd bni - deed trk s lt that he was intellectually squishy and that they falklands, the falklands situation was one place i thk were ana e, r orind shdidn suprt the argentine ian government, but she quote unquote understood it. a i think her ision of the world and of the oldwaanof e liite et t befern th sens and that she said you knowthey don't support us. why should we rush to their defens and sesa ynohe nt government, while it is an aut
she hado irstak t u.s gaot . educe th in r opion about the importance of israel as a kind of democracy and a democracy in this vast dert of despotisand ddle s aasshihas ry important to her. she made a very conscious effort to rehabilitate israel and to defend israel,nd tn of courhentdo know, use the growing moral clout she had and growing political effectiveness that she had yonowtackhe siet ui pue etun h inatise h gre accomplishment is for the soviet union, for the first time, a on the...
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consequently the u.s. federal government will continue to provide a social safety net, regulate the economy, and shoulder a substantial share responsibility for safeguarding the social and economic political equality. all signs are, a significant majority of americans we will want to continue to do some. in these circumstances conservatives must redouble their efforts to reform sloppy and incompetent government and to resist governments and parent expansionist tendencies and progressivisms reflexive radically -- radical and -- radical proclivities. the attempt to dismantle or even substantially rollback the welfare and regulatory state reflected the distinctly and conservative refusal to grant political goals and political realities. conservatives can and should focus on restraining spending, reducing regulation, reforming the task and generally raining in hours calling for government. conservatives should retire misleading talk of small government. instead, they should think and speak in terms of limited
consequently the u.s. federal government will continue to provide a social safety net, regulate the economy, and shoulder a substantial share responsibility for safeguarding the social and economic political equality. all signs are, a significant majority of americans we will want to continue to do some. in these circumstances conservatives must redouble their efforts to reform sloppy and incompetent government and to resist governments and parent expansionist tendencies and progressivisms...
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the u.s. joined in that occupation after the u.s. joined the war and the russians did not leave as they had agreed to do it and instead set up a separatist movement in the northwest which first demanded autonomy from iran. that crisis was the first item on the docket of the newly formed united nations and of the first five resolutions of the security council starting in january of 1946. three of the five involve iran and azerbaijan. >> what role did the cia played in iran in the 1950's? >> well, peter, that's a good question. i don't have many details. many pyrenean friends of mine think i know more about the operations than i do of the cia. people argue over this endlessly what we do know is that the early 1953 president eisenhower inherited a difficult situation from president truman and gave the order to plan an operation inside iran to bring down prime minister mohsen def and to replace him with someone believed to be more in accordance with our interest. >> so did the prime minister get replaced and did the schulman get through
the u.s. joined in that occupation after the u.s. joined the war and the russians did not leave as they had agreed to do it and instead set up a separatist movement in the northwest which first demanded autonomy from iran. that crisis was the first item on the docket of the newly formed united nations and of the first five resolutions of the security council starting in january of 1946. three of the five involve iran and azerbaijan. >> what role did the cia played in iran in the 1950's?...
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to light in stay at the rotunda of the u.s. capitol 1,400 people viewed it on june 11th the funeral service was held at the national cathedral attended by many leaders including his old adversary mikhail gorbachev. was buried in california at the ronald reagan presidential library. on his stone is inscribed from his speech at the dedication. i know in my heart man is a good. what is right what will triumph and if there is purpose of worth each and every life. during his political career reagan was disliked reviled by the intelligentsia or the mainstream media but today there are those that look at russia's decision to stop pointing missiles that can misstates but many others remember him from his record of 34 television network addresses. the matter their politics, or his, he was a man of straight talk. good humor, could well. a cheerful president and times he could be angry with a arms conference and murder on the currey an airliner that i did not get into. reagan had a clear sense of right and wrong that infuriated many journ
to light in stay at the rotunda of the u.s. capitol 1,400 people viewed it on june 11th the funeral service was held at the national cathedral attended by many leaders including his old adversary mikhail gorbachev. was buried in california at the ronald reagan presidential library. on his stone is inscribed from his speech at the dedication. i know in my heart man is a good. what is right what will triumph and if there is purpose of worth each and every life. during his political career reagan...
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the obama presidency is the most divisive in u.s. history and says the president has allowed his ideology to trump the good of the populace. is a little under an hour. >> good afternoon, everyone. i am the president of the clear blue loose policy institute and i thank you for joining us and welcome you to our conservative woman's network. special thanks to the heritage foundation. we have been putting this on for years ended to a pleasure to work with a fine organization like the heritage foundation. i am happy to introduce today's speaker, kate obenshain. you have seen her on fox news where she is a passionate, articulate defender of conservative values and has one of the loose policy institute's most popular campus speakers for many years and she has been speaking and mentoring young women that we worked with for decades and helped me out so many times to help the institute, and i am grateful to you for that. she has also been in almost all of our great conservative women calendars. our 2013 calendar is out. we do it differently wi
the obama presidency is the most divisive in u.s. history and says the president has allowed his ideology to trump the good of the populace. is a little under an hour. >> good afternoon, everyone. i am the president of the clear blue loose policy institute and i thank you for joining us and welcome you to our conservative woman's network. special thanks to the heritage foundation. we have been putting this on for years ended to a pleasure to work with a fine organization like the heritage...
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he did serve and a number of eminent u.s. test related positions, international security council and the state department as well as in europe itself. this increased for some time in 2006 when you lead the first provincial reconstruction team not in afghanistan, but in northern iraq. he then became ambassador brock before returning to the u.s. embassy in baghdad. finally into does intend you were sworn in as u.s. ambassador to pakistan. i understand that after you retire you will be going to the columbia school of law and then follow that with some other academic. welcome back to the world of academia. you as representative in pakistan during changing time. your tenure was exactly not an easy one. relations between the two countries after the quite unprecedented series of crisis of 2001 in particular, the cut off of the line of supply. 2011 was, indeed, a relief for pakistan meet-u.s. relations. establishing and reasoning was, indeed, no small achievement. but moments of truth, and i suppose we are all keen to know, was this
he did serve and a number of eminent u.s. test related positions, international security council and the state department as well as in europe itself. this increased for some time in 2006 when you lead the first provincial reconstruction team not in afghanistan, but in northern iraq. he then became ambassador brock before returning to the u.s. embassy in baghdad. finally into does intend you were sworn in as u.s. ambassador to pakistan. i understand that after you retire you will be going to...
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it was such a hard place to get to, they were also fighting some of the restrictions placed on the u.s. and afghanistan. i'm sure we have all seen the news, right? the night raids are highly regulated. who patrols the battle space is highly regulated and it takes a long time to get a mission plan and one of the things they ran into in planning the mission was how to get there, without copters could do and when and where they would be allowed to go. essentially what they came back with was the idea that they would fly to the valley, valley, landed novelli, unload the soldiers and then fly off. the team initially wanted to fly to the top of the valley, to the top of the village and repel out of the helicopter in the helicopter would fly off but he does have restrictions and because of what the pilots were comfortable doing that ended up having to settle for this mission was -- which was to landed novelli and unload their shoots. to fight uphill is never coming never want to do it. if you can take the high ground you want it, so what the commanders had to pretty much reconcile with where
it was such a hard place to get to, they were also fighting some of the restrictions placed on the u.s. and afghanistan. i'm sure we have all seen the news, right? the night raids are highly regulated. who patrols the battle space is highly regulated and it takes a long time to get a mission plan and one of the things they ran into in planning the mission was how to get there, without copters could do and when and where they would be allowed to go. essentially what they came back with was the...
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you think the u.s. government or the u.s. economy is in a ditch in a downward spiral with or without the help of the fed. we were talking a little bit earlier about the best way is to think about the problem the united states faces and the way to get us out of the problem. can you help us raise the way you think about the u.s. current deficit both fiscal and economic and a way out of that? >> i tend to sign on this argument about the fed with the line of the cover story but may be for different reasons. i actually see an optimistic path for the u.s. economy going forward. we are still dealing with three of serious deficits that are holding us back. the first is a demand deficit that has been partly filled by the government transfer payments presumption and there are limits to that particularly if you are going to get to a sustainable growth path or getting a little job creation as you pointed out now that helps boosting incomes but we are facing a global headwind. we have another we have faming the demand deficit that we have
you think the u.s. government or the u.s. economy is in a ditch in a downward spiral with or without the help of the fed. we were talking a little bit earlier about the best way is to think about the problem the united states faces and the way to get us out of the problem. can you help us raise the way you think about the u.s. current deficit both fiscal and economic and a way out of that? >> i tend to sign on this argument about the fed with the line of the cover story but may be for...
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removing criminal aliens from the u.s. is a congressional priority since 1986 with the passage of the immigration reform act. the department of homeland security and its predecessor agency have programs targeting removal since 1988. under the secure community program, law enforcement agencies miss the fingerprints for criminal background check, fingerprints are automatically extended to ice against them. when i was traveling by congressional district on want to have my congressional districts, we told the folks it was a very simple thing. when they put a finger print check the criminal background but once in jail they give the fingerprints now they send off the immigration status and it is common sense approach. you are all 254 counties in texas and all across the couple states we want to talk about in a few minutes. the ice report shows through march 31st, 2012, more than 130,000 immigrants convicted of crimes including 49,000 convicted of felony offense like murder and rape were removed from the u.s. for identification t
removing criminal aliens from the u.s. is a congressional priority since 1986 with the passage of the immigration reform act. the department of homeland security and its predecessor agency have programs targeting removal since 1988. under the secure community program, law enforcement agencies miss the fingerprints for criminal background check, fingerprints are automatically extended to ice against them. when i was traveling by congressional district on want to have my congressional districts,...
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as you know, our attempt in u.s. to set up a market system, via legislation, prominently stalled when there was no hope. is the clean air act too expensive? >> guest: it is very -- i mean, the whole development of using market to solve environmental problems sort of the development of the 1980s and 1990s, has a much more efficient way, the command and control doing it cosmic a republican idea. >> guest: that's right. it goes back to george h. w. bush's administration. indeed, it goes back to ronald reagan's administration. it meant the cost reductions of reducing and so do from cold electric generation was much lower than anticipated. i think, what i find what is listening to people talk about cap-and-trade, in that narrative always went back to what happened in the early 1990s, kind of the irish is fascinated. i wanted to get the story, how i wanted to get the story, how did that happen. and we just out cap-and-trade and for society is big and complex, much harder to do than something that is fairly focused on limit
as you know, our attempt in u.s. to set up a market system, via legislation, prominently stalled when there was no hope. is the clean air act too expensive? >> guest: it is very -- i mean, the whole development of using market to solve environmental problems sort of the development of the 1980s and 1990s, has a much more efficient way, the command and control doing it cosmic a republican idea. >> guest: that's right. it goes back to george h. w. bush's administration. indeed, it...
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u.s. air force has come forward and they've done exactly the same thing. japanese government has the facts of the two mishaps. both mishaps were pilot error. it's tragedy. in our case we lost two crew chiefs in the back. so that i don't want to ever downplay that. that's serious. but both accidents were not caused by mechanical failures. your point about when people -- it's always dot dot dot and then they start rehashing press written by somebody really almost 10, 11 years ago. the facts are this. the airplane itself is absolutely probably competing to be the safest airplane in the first 100,000 hours of flight. you build an airplane, you feel that come to take a look at how it performs in the first 100,000 hours. that airplane is tied for first place across all the airplanes we have ever built, all the ones we are flying right now and all the ones we're flying overseas and all aircraft carriers. it's tied with the cv 22, interestingly enough, the air force, and h. 60 helicopter. those are the three safest airplanes in the first 100,000 hours of flight. i
u.s. air force has come forward and they've done exactly the same thing. japanese government has the facts of the two mishaps. both mishaps were pilot error. it's tragedy. in our case we lost two crew chiefs in the back. so that i don't want to ever downplay that. that's serious. but both accidents were not caused by mechanical failures. your point about when people -- it's always dot dot dot and then they start rehashing press written by somebody really almost 10, 11 years ago. the facts are...
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if you want to look at where the moderate, look what happened in the u.s. senate across the country yesterday. how is it in these very republican state, montana, north dakota indiana, we are running big votes for romney they were supporting tickets and voting for what would he described as moderate. the democratic party as you know, look at democrats. one third self identifies as liberal and two-thirds identifies moderate conservative. we have a diverse party and in the state-wide races, the same thing exists when you deal with the house but on the democratic side it has been driving toward diversity, ideological diversity in the opposite is drawn the republican side. >> we have got to finish. it was striking yesterday that all the candidates achieved crossover support were in indiana, south dakota and minnesota. you look at ohio massachusetts connecticut or wisconsin, there was 90% plus correlation in the boat between president and senate in each of those cases. 90% of the obama voters voted democratic. there were democrats who were where they needed to. >
if you want to look at where the moderate, look what happened in the u.s. senate across the country yesterday. how is it in these very republican state, montana, north dakota indiana, we are running big votes for romney they were supporting tickets and voting for what would he described as moderate. the democratic party as you know, look at democrats. one third self identifies as liberal and two-thirds identifies moderate conservative. we have a diverse party and in the state-wide races, the...
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u.s. manufacturers to more efficient operation. finally, reduces nuclear dangers, environmental risks. a lot of this is modeled after two very thorough reviews, led by steve coogan, one is a long-term strategic planning, followed by a much more intensive quadrennial technology review, and that quadrennial technology review is reflected in some of the things in this budget. so first budget request is 27.2 billion, and roughly reflects some tough choices to cut back on certain areas. so what are we cutting? well, the president's budget eliminates $4 billion in unnecessary fossil fuel subsidies. it skills backward on certain projects, for example, sodium ion battery, storage because actually it was successful and it is being commercially deployed. and it's on track of my build. it's also cutting back on the things that we have funded which did not work, and with the consent of, the get discontinued funny for combined total of nearly 35 projects. that did not reach milestones. and we are inves
u.s. manufacturers to more efficient operation. finally, reduces nuclear dangers, environmental risks. a lot of this is modeled after two very thorough reviews, led by steve coogan, one is a long-term strategic planning, followed by a much more intensive quadrennial technology review, and that quadrennial technology review is reflected in some of the things in this budget. so first budget request is 27.2 billion, and roughly reflects some tough choices to cut back on certain areas. so what are...
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the familiar story is how the u.s. went after the people known as the hollywood 10. that is the 10 hollywood directors and producers who refuse to answer questions that were sent to jail for a year. and the stories told about them by and large. but i tell the story about robinson because i think he had a much greater impact on hollywood. because when you after the hollywood 10, movie activists and movie stars on the left now that the 10 have been either communist party members were very close to them and they didn't and he was okay to go after them, but they understood why they would market them. what really frightens how to do this when they went after someone like edward g robbins then, who was known to be a left liberal, but not a communist, not a fellow traveler, he believed in the bill of rights and he said publicly bill of rights will receive me from any persecution because i'm exercising my constitutional right. well, he got blacklisted. he got name as a fellow traveler and in 1950 that was the end of his career. warren mcculloch and others have noted when rob
the familiar story is how the u.s. went after the people known as the hollywood 10. that is the 10 hollywood directors and producers who refuse to answer questions that were sent to jail for a year. and the stories told about them by and large. but i tell the story about robinson because i think he had a much greater impact on hollywood. because when you after the hollywood 10, movie activists and movie stars on the left now that the 10 have been either communist party members were very close...
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. >> host: are cigars as bad for u.s. cigarettes? >> guest: they are not as bad for your cigarettes and i know we are going to get calls. that doesn't mean that they are not bad for you and mouth cancer is terrible and all that but you don't inhale cigars. >> host: you just look cool like smoking. guest: i don't think anybody thinks i look cool. i have a lot of work to do in that department. it's funny, i know some older journeyman journalist who grew up smoking cigarettes and they say you better switch to cigars. when you switch to cigars you start in hailing the cigars which is really crazy. and so, i don't work too much at a desk. i had a great research assistant who helped out on the stuff who would feed me a lot of things and i wrote liberal fascism in my basement or in a starbucks and that is one of the things about the new economy that i really like. >> host: tell me about your brother. i know he passed away before you began the book or as you were beginning. >> guest: my brotherv?ñ?ñ josh,y only sibling, he died in february
. >> host: are cigars as bad for u.s. cigarettes? >> guest: they are not as bad for your cigarettes and i know we are going to get calls. that doesn't mean that they are not bad for you and mouth cancer is terrible and all that but you don't inhale cigars. >> host: you just look cool like smoking. guest: i don't think anybody thinks i look cool. i have a lot of work to do in that department. it's funny, i know some older journeyman journalist who grew up smoking cigarettes and...
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i'm u.s. senator bernie sanders from the state of vermont, and we're delighted to be here with author ira shapiro, and we are going to talk about ira's book: "the last great senate: courage and statementsmanship in times of crisis." welcome, ira. let me start off with a hard question. who are you, what's your background, and how did you get into this book? >> i'm from new york originally, born in new york, grew up oblong island. a product of the 60s, got interested in politics during the '60s. responding to the civil rights issues of the time, and then ultimately to vietnam, when the war was so dominant while we were in college. graduated in 1969, and actually from brandeis university, and one day after graduation was able to start as a senate intern for jacob javits for the summer. i was impressionable but it made a big impression on me, and i decided to go to law school and came back in 1975 and spent 12 years in the senate, and in a sense i'm writing the book because i've been fascinated by
i'm u.s. senator bernie sanders from the state of vermont, and we're delighted to be here with author ira shapiro, and we are going to talk about ira's book: "the last great senate: courage and statementsmanship in times of crisis." welcome, ira. let me start off with a hard question. who are you, what's your background, and how did you get into this book? >> i'm from new york originally, born in new york, grew up oblong island. a product of the 60s, got interested in politics...
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the u.s. house of representatives committee and rules. on the committee is served us chief advisor. immediately to my left is jim harper, director of policy studies at the cato institute and also the founder of washington watch.com, which keeps a close eye on legislation and federal funding. jenna sasser to mention washington watch.com at least several times during the course of this presentation. last but not least is john wonderlich, policy director at all about transparency guide. that is his official title. more information about today's panel under chairs and also at transparency cockiest.org. i would like to thank representative issa andrew gray, cochairs of the congressional congress for giving us the space to have >> thanks, daniel. thanks to you and the advisory committee and the sunlight foundation for having me this afternoon. i would like to talk with you about where we've been over the last two years and maybe a little bit about where we are headed in the relatively near future. y
the u.s. house of representatives committee and rules. on the committee is served us chief advisor. immediately to my left is jim harper, director of policy studies at the cato institute and also the founder of washington watch.com, which keeps a close eye on legislation and federal funding. jenna sasser to mention washington watch.com at least several times during the course of this presentation. last but not least is john wonderlich, policy director at all about transparency guide. that is...
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emerged as the power and u.s. government. >> shiatsu is a successful in-flight although she didn't that. so why after the united nations does she not be something else in the second term. they're all kinds of questions about what high political office should i have gotten. what happened there? >> she wanted to be -- tired of the u.n., wanted to be head of the national security council and she really wanted that job and had backing from people like bill casey and cab weinberger in short shows who is the new secretary of state was very much against it and made common cause and really blocked her. so was the kind of melancholy moment for her and burka both and they realize reagan tried to wrestle around and figure out another job. she did my job to didn't have real substantial power. so she left. this was after she agreed to stay through the 1984 election at which she really establish herself -- she or he established herself as a huge covering safety administration in foreign policy. in 1984 the democratic -- the rep
emerged as the power and u.s. government. >> shiatsu is a successful in-flight although she didn't that. so why after the united nations does she not be something else in the second term. they're all kinds of questions about what high political office should i have gotten. what happened there? >> she wanted to be -- tired of the u.n., wanted to be head of the national security council and she really wanted that job and had backing from people like bill casey and cab weinberger in...
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ethical standards were not always pristine and transparent the way they are in the u.s. so i think you raise an important issue. >> high. i've always wondered. i hear your for solutions to these issues. when i looked at what happened, what has happened over the past couple years in congress, the senate and the fighting and the gerrymandering, like he spoke about, is there a solution? even if you're the president of the united states and have the bully pulpit, how do you get your, you know, -- for example, job creation. to come out with a policy shortly. have you get that through congress and the senate without the specified or watering down? >> i agree. that is partly why i'm not optimistic. at think it's very hard to do, and let me tell you what he could've done. maybe it's too late, but i never think anything is too late. he could have talked about government spending programs back in late 2010. he didn't. he talked about cutting government. he and his people interpreted the loss of the november 2010 loss as a sign that an american people wanted to cut back on governme
ethical standards were not always pristine and transparent the way they are in the u.s. so i think you raise an important issue. >> high. i've always wondered. i hear your for solutions to these issues. when i looked at what happened, what has happened over the past couple years in congress, the senate and the fighting and the gerrymandering, like he spoke about, is there a solution? even if you're the president of the united states and have the bully pulpit, how do you get your, you...
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certainly the u.s. >> host: i.d. oppression whenever the itchy when in thinking some things about the nobel peace prize is a suppose we all do. as you reported some of what you thought may be turned out to be true in some of you may have challenge your perceptions. can you talk about what surprised you about the process and what you learned about the peace prize and where you had it to turn out to also be true? >> guest: any of the laureates for for new to me and he enjoyed getting to know them. i enjoyed getting to know the apartheid leader named john of thule. he was a zoo zoo chief and president of the anc and a dedicated christian and a straw man and meek and meek man and i very much enjoyed getting to know him. he was a practitioner of nonviolent. his kind when away at the banning of the anc at the price of people like t-tango annabella. i very much enjoyed getting to know many others including a german pacifist or quit. some of these pacifist side essay were quite sent the ball and even stirring and brave. and
certainly the u.s. >> host: i.d. oppression whenever the itchy when in thinking some things about the nobel peace prize is a suppose we all do. as you reported some of what you thought may be turned out to be true in some of you may have challenge your perceptions. can you talk about what surprised you about the process and what you learned about the peace prize and where you had it to turn out to also be true? >> guest: any of the laureates for for new to me and he enjoyed getting...
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the u.s. intelligence community and had many high ranking positions in it, including executive director, director for the cia, and his final position was national intelligence officer for the near east and south asia where he provided analytical support. and he was a visiting fellow at brookings in the year 2000, and as a reserve officer in the u.s. army, and has also been publishing externally important literature the last few years since retiring from the government. so i will step out of the way now. .. >> what are the prospects for a new president achievement anding a peace setment between israelis and palestinians? i believe, unfortunately, that they are not very good. by a fair settlement i mean a two-state solution, a palestinian state on comprising gaza and the west bank with some modern negotiated land swaps with control of its border, its borders, its water resources, its air space. something similar to the clinton parameters of 2000. i believe that this outcome more than any alterna
the u.s. intelligence community and had many high ranking positions in it, including executive director, director for the cia, and his final position was national intelligence officer for the near east and south asia where he provided analytical support. and he was a visiting fellow at brookings in the year 2000, and as a reserve officer in the u.s. army, and has also been publishing externally important literature the last few years since retiring from the government. so i will step out of the...